The EU does not control all aspect of national governments. There are several different ways of financing national geodata projects. The UK has a commercial company developing this data. While non-EU Norway uses a government controlled department to do it. The difference is that the Norwegian end result is *free* for other government departements to use. But for commercial projects the company in question has to purchase a license. All across Europe the rights and development is done on a national basis - and the results are owned by different bodies. The EU GPS project would have been owned by the consortium of private companies involved. The EU would have put up money to finance it - but would not have owned it.
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The EU does not control all aspect of national governments.
There are several different ways of financing national geodata projects. The UK has a commercial company developing this data. While non-EU Norway uses a government controlled department to do it. The difference is that the Norwegian end result is *free* for other government departements to use. But for commercial projects the company in question has to purchase a license.
All across Europe the rights and development is done on a national basis - and the results are owned by different bodies.
The EU GPS project would have been owned by the consortium of private companies involved. The EU would have put up money to finance it - but would not have owned it.